Veronica CEO's Underworld Queen novel Chapter 7

　　Veronica woke up from a bad dream, the fear still lingering as her heart was beating fast. The incident in her dream seemed very real.

　　Cliff's Edge by Hayley Kioko filled her room to which she jolted realizing someone was calling her.

　　"Ugh!" She fell on her trembling legs as she landed her feet on the floor. "What a beast." She muttered sadly yet at the same time, satisfied. Veronica persisted to stand up on her legs once again and grabbed her phone on her vanity mirror's table.

　　Seeing her mother's missed calls, a bad feeling crept on her and just as she was about to return the call, Rose's number appeared. She was calling her. She rejected the call and rather proceeded to call her mother.

　　"Mom?" Veronica was nervous now after seeing so many missed calls and SMS messages and with her other instant messaging app.

　　"Oh God! Vivi! Thank Goodness!" Celerina was never a kind of a weak woman but she almost lost her composure after hearing her daughter's safe voice. She tried her best to hide her extreme worry. "There was a news broadcasted earlier in TV and radio about your father being involved in a graft and corruption scam. It will surely be the headlines for tomorrow's newspapers."

　　Veronica took time to process what her mother just said but like her mother who raised her to be a strong woman, she calmly replied, "How is father?"

　　"He's in his office talking to his lawyer and staff on how to counter the issue and possibly the case that will be filed against him."

　　"Was the source already discovered?"

　　"Not yet. But my team was working on it. I was worried because you were not answering my call for half an hour now and I asked for your friends help to contact you but you're also not answering theirs. I already sent our people to fetch you home."

　　Veronica was physically, emotionally and spiritually drained that she no longer bothered to explain to her mom as to why she was not answering their call. She will have time to explain later but first she needs to get dressed and wait for her parent's men to fetch her.

　　"Okay mom, I will get dressed."

　　He advised each to just stay in the sideline for the time being as things were still under control. Or so he believed until bad news was delivered which triggered his heart attack.

　　Veronica was involved in a car accident!

　　Celerina looked very calm in contrast to the storm that she was feeling inside. A subordinate reported that her daughter's car was ambushed. Good thing that their men were loyal until the end that most of them sacrificed their lives to save their young miss. But that also saddened her for the loss of the lives of their valiant men. She's feeling a bit helpless now that her husband suffered from a heart attack due to their daughter's accident. 'It's no longer a simple political attack.' Celerina thought. She made sure that her husband's situation was stable before going out to check on their daughter.

　　Even to their men's effort to keep Veronica safe, unfortunately, her head bumped into the car's door and the impact was too strong she was left unconscious. Another agent pulled her out of the water to hide between the rock edges as their attackers bombed the car killing the driver and the other agent with them. "That attack was intended to not just threaten but to seriously kill the young miss." The agent told her with a dark expression.

　　Veronica suffered from an internal hemorrhage and she underwent a surgery which made Celerina lose her cool earlier. A strong woman she might be, but at the end of the day, she is still a mother. She does not have enough power and influence in Country P and her husband is also now lying in the hospital bed. She couldn't do it all alone. She made sure each room was heavily guarded and with a strong resolve proceeded somewhere hidden and safe to call someone from her hidden contact.